Example sentences of "to [pron] [pron] seem " in BNC.
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| 1 | And something appeared to them which seemed like tongues of fire . |
| 2 | ‘ If I find favour in the eyes of the Lord , he will bring me back and let me see both it and his habitation ; but if he says , ‘ I have no pleasure in you , ’ behold , here I am , let him do to me what seems good to him' ( 2 Sam . |
| 3 | She must have been in her late thirties then , but to me she seemed timeless . |
| 4 | The waves around these rocks churn up a salty froth that is said to resemble cotton-wool , though to me it seemed more like the foaming spit of an angry sea-serpent . |
| 5 | To me it seemed to hang on the right lip for at least two seconds before it dropped in . |
| 6 | It was funny — when my dad had said it to me it seemed like the rather tired , friendly sort of thing that parents often say to you . |
| 7 | To me it seemed |
| 8 | ‘ Well , to me it seemed a child . |
| 9 | Pound 's disparagement of Milton , for instance , was , I am convinced , most salutary twenty and thirty years ago ; I still agree with him against the academic admirers of Milton ; though to me it seems that the situation has changed . |
| 10 | Human life is a series of lessons and opportunities for development and evolvement and to me it seems logical to assume that one spirit continues its learning process throughout many lifetimes . |
| 11 | To me it seems inconceivable that a single human life on earth is the beginning and end of it all . |
| 12 | There is nothing illegal in this method , to my knowledge anyway , but I avoid it because to me it seems like cheating . |
| 13 | To me it seems that beauty , and indeed the qualities and forms which give rise to beauty , only exist for a consciousness . |
| 14 | The official integrated magnitude is 8 , but to me it seems slightly brighter than this , and giving definite magnitude values for diffuse objects is always a problem . |
| 15 | To me it seems now as though all had ended well . |
| 16 | ‘ And to me it seems like years , long years ago . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ To me it seems so , ’ he murmured sardonically , his gaze noting the new flush that stained her cheeks . |
| 18 | We live so isolated an existence here that to me it seems quite odd . |
| 19 | To me it seems particularly loathsome and , when you look at the experiences in countries like America where it operates , you 'll see that we want no part of it in this country . |
| 20 | I do think when they 're caught , they are , to me it seems as if they ought to be made to clear up some graffiti and and realise what they 're doing because , I do n't think half the time , they realise the the upset they cause . |
| 21 | To me he seems to cast a blight over the whole day . ’ |
| 22 | To me you seem very good . ’ |
| 23 | I appreciate that such a scheme would take some working out , but to me there seems a real possibility of its working . |
| 24 | Through the window , she could see Luke coming up the drive accompanied by a strange man to whom he seemed to be talking animatedly . |
| 25 | He was in the company of a smartly dressed older woman to whom he seemed to defer . |
| 26 | Here he encountered Charles I 's young daughter Elizabeth [ q.v. ] , to whom he seems to have been some kind of chaplain and with whose virtues he was much taken . |
| 27 | And perhaps through the drinking he sought to meet his father of whom he spoke so little and to whom it seemed , the older he grew , he meant so little . |
| 28 | Who gives moral support to whom It seems that patterns of emotional support in crisis situations may be somewhat different from those which I have labelled ‘ routine ’ . |
| 29 | The banks were not at all keen to lend to somebody who seemed actually to need money . |
| 30 | When District Officers were eventually allowed into the field they were watched like hawks by their senior officers for signs — an indication , it was said , of inaptitude or inexperience — of running things too directly , and promotions were made or denied on the extent to which they seemed , in the words of the Resident , Adamawa , to be ‘ imbued with the true spirit of Indirect Rule ’ . |